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> You do not experiment on people without their consent. This is in fact the very FIRST point of the Nuremberg code:

> 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.

Which is rather useless, as for many experiments to work, participants have to either be lied to, or kept in the dark as to the nature of the experiment, so whatever “consent” they give is not informed consent. They simply consent to “participate in an experiment” without being informed as to the qualities thereof so that they truly know what they are signing up for.

Of course, it's quite common in the U.S.A. to perform practice medical checkups on patients who are going under narcosis for an unrelated operations, and they never consented to that, but the hospitals and physicians that partake in that are not sanctioned as it's “tradition”.

Know well that so-called “human rights” have always been, and shall always be, a show of air that lack substance.




> quite common in the U.S.A. to perform practice medical checkups on patients who are going under narcosis for an unrelated operations

Fascinating. Can you provide links?


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7223770/

https://ctexaminer.com/2021/03/20/explicit-consent-for-pelvi...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/05/14/pelvic-exa...

Most one can find of it also only deals with “intimate parts”; I am quite sceptical that this is the only thing that medical students require practice on and I think it more likely that the media only cares in this case and that in fact it is routine with many more body parts.




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